The best place to go regarding any sort of information on Google Earth and the Maps Gallery is the official Google Earth website. The website covers everything to do with Google Earth etc.
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There are some strange things you can find on the high resolution satellite and StreetView imagery available in Google Maps and Google Earth. The Google Earth Community (GEC), Google Earth Blog, and Google Earth Hacks are probably the best web sites to visit to see what other users have found in Google Earth/Maps. See related questions and links below.
Unless you mean paper maps, google maps has the entire earth mapped out.
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For Street View imagery the date of a Street View is displayed bottom right of the image (but not the time).For dates of the base imagery in Google Maps you'll need to use Google Earth and locate the same location and zoom level for the same view to see the imagery date. For whatever reason the imagery dates are not shown in Google Maps. Google Earth (unlike Google Maps) has historical imagery showing all previous versions of imagery that Google has for the particular area.See related question to show dates in Google Earth.
A handful of web sites have cool things and special topics of things you can find in Google Earth. Google Earth Hacks is one such web site and can find crop circles with screen shots of the location and a link to jump to it in Google Earth or Google Maps. The Google Earth blog also has a couple of articles on crop circles in Google Earth along with screenshots and related links. Click on URLs in related links below for more details.
There's lots of websites devoted to the interesting, funny, and cool things that people find around the world in Google Maps and Google Earth ranging from crop circles to airplanes caught in flight. See related links for a few places to start with.
One can find the location of Linlithgow online in websites, like Google Maps or Google Earth. Linlithgow is a small suburb near Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
There are many ways to find an address online, Google Maps and Bing Maps are very popular website to find an address online. Google Maps is better than the Bing Maps.
You can use Google Earth or Google Maps and type the postcode or address of the house/neighbourhood into the search box.
One can find a Google map of any city by using the Google Maps portion of Google. One can do this by visiting the Google maps area of the Google website directly.
For Street View imagery the date of a Street View is displayed bottom right of the image (but not the time). For dates of base imagery try Google Earth for the same scene which shows the imagery date. Google Earth (unlike Google Maps) has historical imagery showing all previous versions of imagery that Google has for the particular area.